Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget: Safety, Emergency, and Survival Techniques from Real-Life Disaster Stories (Essential Guide to Boating)

Not a guide book, but a great read. Real life disasters and how they lived to tell the stories fill the pages of this book. Everything from sperm whales biting a hole in a hull and escaping in a rubber dingy while your boat goes down in the Pacific to running ashore on rocky shoals. Also includes tips on how to survive whent he worst happens.